Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil.

The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

Sleeping is nice. You forget about everything for a little while.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.

I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I wouldn't want people to know.

Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.